Archive for May, 2014

When Adobe Illustrator first shipped in 1987, it was the first software application for a young company that had, until then, focused solely on Adobe PostScript. The new product not only altered Adobe’s course, it changed drawing and graphic design forever.

Watch the Illustrator story unfold from its beginning as Adobe’s first software product, to its role in the digital publishing revolution, to becoming an essential tool for designers worldwide. Interviews include cofounder John Warnock, his wife Marva, artists and designers Ron Chan, Bert Monroy, Dylan Roscover and Jessica Hische.

You can watch the full movie below or view it by chapters after the jump.

Welcome to this month’s catch up showcase of our favorite Adobe Illustrator tutorials available on Tuts+. We publish tutorials on techniques and effects to make awesome vector graphics in Illustrator. My name is Sharon Milne, the Design & Illustration Editor on Tuts+ and it is my pleasure to share with the Illustrator community five of our most interesting and popular tutorials published during March 2014.

Andrei Marius is a long time regular author on Tuts+. He contributes several times per month and each one avoids the Pen tool as much as possible, making his tutorials perfect for beginners. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a fun cartoon character face.

Here’s something to blow your mind… this illustration… the majority of it is made purely with the Rectangle Tool and Warp Effects. Nataliya Dolotko is great at showing our readers how to create simple illustrations from basic tools.

Here’s a two part tutorial which will make good use of your Creative Cloud subscription. Alex Beltechi shows you how to create an isometric cityscape in Illustrator with some added detailing in Photoshop. Then in the second part, shows you how to create a magazine cover and inner spread.

Blend Week

Each month, we’re looking at tools and processes that our readers have requested further content on. Whether it be because they find that area harder to master or they just love tutorials to do with that area. In March, we looked at Blends and the Blend Tool.